Translated from a series of books which are unfinished.
The first two parts are about the fleeing from Paris, all types are running away to hopeful safety. Part two and now we are in German occupation of France. What is key here is that Irene wrote this whilst it was happening, she couldn’t know how the war was to turn out or if France would recover.
Sadly she never did, she dies later in a concentration camp, year and years later her family publish the books.
My book group thought more of this than I did and the average was 6.5/10
Score 5/10
Date read February 2008
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